The Comanche Raid that Terrified the Spanish



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As the troops and missionaries of the Spanish Empire trek north, they stumble into the orbit of a new power on the North American continent: the Comanche. An attack on the Mission of San Saba in 1758 terrifies the Spanish colonies, provokes the Battle of the Twin Villages, and ushers in an era of increased Comanche war raids.
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SOURCES

Gwynne, S. C. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. Constable, 2011.

Hämäläinen Pekka. The Comanche Empire. Yale University Press, 2009.

Weddle, Robert S. “Ortiz Parrilla Red River Campaign.” TSHA, Texas State Historical Association, 1995, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ortiz-parrilla-red-river-campaign.

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39 thoughts on “The Comanche Raid that Terrified the Spanish”

  1. The immersion is impeccable, thank you for bringing light to our indigenous histories. People tend to think that the indigenous were helpless against the colonizers. They are wrong, as stories like this show

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  2. The word Comanche comes from the Kiowa coma meaning he who likes to fight! The Comanche without horses were pitiful to behold on horseback the Comanche where the Bengal tiger of the human race;

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  3. This was great as always. I’d love to see you guys do the death of Magellan, trust whole voyage was insane. He was betrayed, they abandoned people in Patagonia, they half starved to death and in the end he was beaten to death on a beach as he attempted to prove the superiority of the church. It’s a tale for the ages and you’d do a great job telling it.

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  4. The level of history inaccuracies in this video is actually shocking. It’s mostly Hollywood style science fiction, but for that I actually prefer going to the movies. I’m actually sorry about it, as this YouTube channel could have been a great platform to introduce history to newcomers. To the founders of this channel, please remember that history is based on facts and records.

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  5. Hold up, with headphones that are high quality and all that, the background sound at the beginning holy hell that was amazing. 100000000000000000 out of 10. The video was great too but your getting a like and sub just for that

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  6. The Book empire of the summer moon gives a very accurate description of the Comanche Tribes. Their beginnings to their end. Anyone interested in learning more about their culture and tactics in war should definitely give it a read. It’s a fascinating book.

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  7. Yea yea, Comanche, very “scary”. I think the Spanish conquistadors, who were mostly horrible people who only cared to grab land and loot valuables (against the orders or the Pope and of the King of Spain) but I think mostly they had experience from European wars and know some psychology of people in war, which is to scare the other side as much as possible. Not that they weren’t scary. But at some point the Spanish had to understand that still native Americans in the north were as beatable as the Mexican ones.

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  8. I am Chicano. I descend from the Oñate Expedition Settlers of New Mexico on my direct maternal line. I discovered my direct Ancestral Grandmother was an Athabaskan woman. Athabaskan is the family of Diné people. Which include the Navajo, Pueblo, Anasazi, Apache, Kiowa. Proud of this History.

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  9. For all the horrific atrocities between the Spanish and the Comanches the Spanish were slowly bringing Western civilisation to Texas which ultimately could not in any way be matched or equalled by the relatively primitive Comanches.

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  10. Hold on now : you have a 16th century collar on a guy from the 18th century? As a descendant of people who fought Indians in the 16th century onwards, I’m now skeptical of your work. Yea

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  11. Tell me something… 🤔 Has it EVER in ALL OF HISTORY worked when "Holy men" say, "Oh no, I'm stayin… Jebus will protect me!"? It's like that idiot who went to the "FORBIDEN ISLAND" off the coast of India, with nothin but his Bible and his charming smile, and got turned into a canoe by the locals for his troubles… WILL THEY NEVER LEARN?! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ IF there is something, anything watching over us, I bet it's laughing its ASS OFF!!

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  12. Actually the the Pawnee and the oto native American tribes fought a major battle against the Spanish. In far north of republican rever in Kansas and Nebraska. Both tribes drove back and defeated the Spanish around 1640 or 1650 to stop them from go farther north.

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